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04/03/2008 14:00:00
Would you work for this company? NOTICE: Due to foreign competition, we find that our sales have declined in recent years. To stimulate sales, we have decided to give all employees a $10.00 gift certificate this coming July which can be used to purchase any of our products. This should help sales... 03/10/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- The congressional Republican establishment's charade, pretending to crack down on spending earmarks while actually preserving their uncontrolled addiction to pork, faces embarrassment this week when the Democratic-designed budget is brought to the Senate floor. 02/25/2008 14:00:00
A congressional Web site devoted to spending reform may soon fall victim to a nearly 10-year-old House rule governing online activity. If the Web site is axed, it will serve as an embarrassing example of just how behind the times our lawmakers are. 02/22/2008 12:00:00
U.S. Comptroller has announced he will be departing the government to take the position of president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. 02/04/2008 14:00:00
Seven minutes into his final State of the Union address, President Bush declared war on earmarks. It took him seven years and came after significant expense to taxpayers, but it was a sign... 01/28/2008 14:00:00
I wouldn’t want Hank Paulson negotiating on my behalf. The U.S. treasury secretary did such a poor job representing the White House in negotiations on the economic stimulus deal, it wasn’t clear if Paulson was purposely trying to help House 01/24/2008 14:00:00
The New York Times is distressed that private philanthropists can give money to any charity they choose. 01/15/2008 14:00:00
Liberals implicitly acknowledge that the so-called budget-balancing of the Clinton era was based on subterfuge and outright lie. 01/05/2008 14:00:00
No, not the Civil War, but the economic war between Virginia and Massachusetts. It seems that both are wooing Hollywood to become major centers of film production. In order to win over the Hollywood producers and directors, each state has fought by cutting taxes and giving other incentives 01/01/2008 14:00:00
With 2008 on the horizon and President Bush heading into the final year of his presidency, heres one New Years resolution all Republicans ought to make: Well shut down the favor factory that churns out earmarks. 12/21/2007 14:00:00
In recent weeks I have used this column to criticize the massive spending Congress is poised to enact in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill. As it turns out there remains a great deal of nonsense in it. As a Christmas gift to the American 12/19/2007 14:00:00
Conferees from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives soon will meet to merge an overdue farm bill authorizing hundreds of billions of tax dollars over the next five years to pay for federal farm subsidies, nutrition programs, food stamps, rural development, land conservation, renewable energy 12/11/2007 14:00:00
Congressional Democrats came to power in the 2006 election through their ability to exploit the general frustration in the country with President George W. Bush and the Congressional Republicans. The latter group had controlled the legislature for twelve years, and the public’s 12/10/2007 14:00:00
Sen. Jim DeMint has a simple plan to save taxpayers $31 billion. He wants Congress to pass a continuing resolution, rather than adopt a massive omnibus spending bill. 12/10/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- "Given the lack of time available," Sen. Mitch McConnell said last week, "the best way to deal with the troop funding issue would be in the context of some kind of settlement on an overall omnibus appropriation bill." Instead of following the president's hardline 12/10/2007 13:00:00
The way the Federal Reserve injects money into the system is by buying the National Debt. Everyone should know this, but few do. 11/29/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- Well-connected Republicans in Mississippi were shocked by more than the unexpected nature of Trent Lott's announced resignation Monday. 11/27/2007 14:00:00
Over lunch, a liberal friend expressed puzzlement. Citing the title of Tom Oliphant's new book about the Bush administration, "Utter Incompetents," he wondered aloud. Like him or not, he said, Bush is not an unintelligent man, and he is a principled and energetic executive. 11/24/2007 14:00:00
Mr. Krugman waves his magic wand and presumes to banish future difficulties for Social Security. 11/24/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- After Congress recessed for Thanksgiving with urgent unfinished business that included facilitating income tax refunds and providing veterans benefits, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid left on an eight-day government-financed trip through Latin America. 11/22/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- Habitual congressional gridlock usually has no impact on the lives of ordinary Americans. But what happened on the Senate floor last Friday will delay tax refunds next year for some 50 million taxpayers who count on them. 11/21/2007 13:55:09
ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OPENNESS TO NEW IDEAS ON AMERICAN COLLEGE CAMPUSES; AN EXCHANGE WITH PROFESSOR RAANAN BOUSTAN OF UCLA. 11/20/2007 14:00:00
One of the reasons the Democrats won that resounding victory in the 2006 elections is that Republicans lost their way. In the 109th Congress there was profligate spending which would have made President Lyndon B. Johnson blush. Following the 2006 elections the Party leadership resolved 11/20/2007 14:00:00
Americans tend to support the art of compromise. In the real world, if everyone's willing to give a little, it's usually possible to reach a deal everyone can live with.
Washington, however, isn't the real world. 11/16/2007 13:00:00
Our Treasury is being rapidly depleted, no money for troops in Iraq? How about curbing your scandalous pork and earmark spending? 11/12/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- The ploy had been hatched behind closed doors by Democratic leaders of both houses. A pork-laden appropriations bill filled with $1 billion in earmarks would combine with veto-proof spending for veterans. 11/07/2007 14:00:00
Have you ever been to a Communist or former Communist country? If so I am sure you have seen street after street of government-funded housing. Usually this consists of numerous drab apartment buildings crammed together with tiny apartments inside. But at least everyone 11/05/2007 14:00:00
Congressional Republicans have tried hard this year to reclaim the GOP's traditional "brand" as the party of fiscal responsibility. They're about to face a test that will show whether their rhetoric matches reality. 11/05/2007 14:00:00
In 1974 the late Senator Carl T. Curtis (R-NE) and Senator James A. McClure (R-ID), after a lunch with another staffer and yours truly, agreed to constitute what they called the Senate Steering Committee (SSC). They took a leaf from the successful Republican Study Committee. The
11/04/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- Democrats are plotting a rapid override of three expected vetoes of spending bills by George W. Bush, who did not veto a single bill until his sixth year as president.
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